{"id":6736,"date":"2024-12-30T18:55:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T18:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=6736"},"modified":"2025-10-29T06:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:04:08","slug":"puruca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/puruca","title":{"rendered":"Puruca Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Puruca comes from three Shetland stallions that arrived on the island of Maraj\u00f3 in Brazil at the end of the 19th century. They were crossed with <a href=\"\/breeds\/marajoara\">Marajoara<\/a> mares and then forged by the environment of their adopted island.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>The locals were delighted with the resulting cross as it was a reliable, sturdy mount, making a magnificent and adaptable cattle horse. They are small, but retain horse like characteristics <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 9.8-11.6 hands<br \/>\nMane and tail hairs are silky and grow thick<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head has straight or convex profile<br \/>\nEyes are large<br \/>\nEars are refined<br \/>\nNeck is short<br \/>\nChest is broad<br \/>\nShoulder is sloping<br \/>\nBack is short<br \/>\nHindquarters are sloping<br \/>\nLegs are strong<br \/>\nHooves are hard<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Most <a href=\"\/colors\">colors<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Docile and calm<br \/>\nEnergetic and strong<br \/>\nHardy and resistant<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Working cattle<br \/>\nRiding<br \/>\nChildren&#8217;s horse<\/p>\n<h3>More Images<\/h3>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/puruca-horse.webp\" alt=\"Puruca Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro The Puruca comes from three Shetland stallions that arrived on the island of Maraj\u00f3 in Brazil at the end of the 19th century. They were crossed with Marajoara mares and then forged by the environment of their adopted island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-6736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brazil","tag-all-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6736"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10301,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions\/10301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}